Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1914 — Page 2

CANYON OF A Thousand Splendors

THERE is a strange satisfaction in having any great experience of life reserved for one until maturity of thought and a development of the appreciative faculties insure an understanding point of view upon it As Theodore Dreiser has said, apropos of his recent first .visit to Lon—don, “We can only do one thing significantly once. The first time of any important thing sticks and lasts; it comes back at times, and haunts you with its beauty and its sadness.” “We can do anything but once for the first time,” was the thought I had persistently in mind as I reached forward in prospect to my first glimpse of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, writes Neeta Marquis in the Los Angeles Times. It was not only to be my first vision of this canyon but of any Grand Canyon in the world, and I ached with the sense of what it was going to mean to me. All the way I had abstained from guide books with almost religious earnestness, lest other travelers’ impressions taken beforehand mfght blur my own when the time came for their forming. All the freshness of 'first wonderment must be reserved for my own eyes. Beauty filtered through another’s consciousness is good, if it can be had in no better way. But this was my opportunity.. f<yr_. a better way. Stream Teemed With Fish. ' It had rained during the night, but that had only quickened the mountain air and laid the dust on the long gray roads. Starting from the Antwerp-blue lake, our journey followed first along the Yellowstone river, a clear cold green stream teeming with flab, which leaped and frolicked in its transparent tide. Pine forests loomed dark beside the road, and the sky above was thick and soft with brooding rain clouds. The forests receded as we advanced, and before long the way opened out into the famous Hayden valley, lush with grass and rich in colors of golden green, reddish brown, mauve and tan and pink. The green river flowed through the middle of it, taking fantastic shapes at times around the quaint little grassy islands which broke the continuity of its flow. We halted to make a detour on foot to gaze upon the Mud Geyser. It was a weird, almost a sickening sight—a hole under a mountain side forever and forever belching forth a thick black liquid permeated with the odor of sulphur. There was somewhat primordial in the ugliness of it. It repelled while it fascinated me. It depressed me to think that year in and year out, through all the blue and green beauty of June and the snowy loveliness of December, there is no cessation to the motion or to the slop, slop sound of the slimy mud in its heavy splashing. It was the monster Caliban in a realm Of enchantment —the one unlovely thing we saw ifi the park. A few feet away from this Caliban was the Miranda of the Isle, a small and beautiful clear water geyser sparkling forth from under a little sheltering gable-roof of golden and green formation. And the black stream and the clear one could not but meet as they flowed down to a common level. It was good to be driving for miles through the sweet, placid, rain-wet valley after ,we left this point We approached from the rear the fails which mark the head of the Grand Canyon, and we bad no intimation of their nearness in the steady.

deep, unidppled flow of the clear green river. I can look back now, however, and; see that the river gained in depth and serenity—in poise, so to speak—as it neared this great crisis of its course, which involved rocks and chasms to shelter its evenness and to tear its smooth green color into a million rainbows. Our first view of the canyon itself was marred as an impression, because it was taken in company with a coachload of fellow travelers. Inspiration Point was the high far aerie from which we took that first comprehensive gaze up canyon and down, from the man-made platform overhanging its bewildering dazzle and depth. “Inspiration Point!” chattered one inconsequent girl, as she leaned over the railing to measure the spaces with her eye. “How long does it take to get inspired?” Nature issues no guarantees for inspiration for the mere asking, however. At her booth inspirations are sold, and the most vital inspiration goes to him who has bid highest in deep quietness of mind and reverent simplicity of spirit. But nothing could mar the canyon as a fact. And it was in our unhurried separate studies of it that its magnificence mads its lasting imprint, not to be outdone for splendor by oriental visions of seas of jasper and walls of garnet and sardonyx. Golden Sea of Air. Looking up the gorge from Inspiration Point, between the walls of rent sulphur cliffs, we could see the foaming descent of the great falls—nearly “400 feet offrothy white, viewed through a dazzle of prismatic lights. Down the gorge there were green peaks covered with pines, and beyond them one tall mountain wrapped in deep violet mist. Below the wall, upon the rim of which we were frailly perched, tall needles of rock thrust up their points, colored like the garments of Cleopatra, and upon one or two of the pinnacles the ospreys had found them nests where they might lay their young. Even now the soaring birds floated near the nests, black specks in a golden sea of air far beneath us. It was from Artist Point, on the opposite side, that we were best able to study the bewildering canyon color. At varied hours of the day the es. sects were strengthened or softened, but the bewilderment of the beauty did not alter. Here the walls were nearly 2,000 feet high, and every foot of the way dabbed with lengthwise streaks of color —rose, terracotta, sulphur, chrome, prange, burnt orange, brown, green, gray-green, lavender. The blendings were Ineffably soft The atmosphere was like velvet. The river was an emerald thread below. It wr.s a flashing knife which had cut dcwn through a sheer mountain of sulphur, leaving ragged places pn the sides where the rainbows of all the gods had snagged and been drained of their tints to warm the soil. The falls were magnificent as they dashed over the titanic rocks, clear green and glittering in the sun, torn into the finest foam of white. The spray rose in clouds, swept by some continuous air-current against the north wall of the canyon, which was covered with a plush of emerald moss wherever thus watered.

Saving Stamp Money. ” Patience —She says her husband U trying to economize now. Patrice —How,. I wonder? "By forgetting to mail her letter*.**

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, TND.

BALL PLAYERS STICK

MIGHTY FEW OF THEM QUIT UNTIL THEY ARE FORCED TO. Holdouts Tell Many Stories of Rea* sons for Leaving, But They Come Back—Owners and Fans Often Fall for the Trick. Adelina Patti has often made her “farewells,” Barnum also, but neither of them equals the ballplayer who proclaims to the world that he is tired of drawing $6,000 or $7,000 a year, bays Ted Sullivan, Let us see how he first sounds the alarm. It may be he is to marry an heiress; or it may be a rich widow' who wants him to quit the horrid game and look out for her interests. Still it might be that some relative left him a mine in the far west. One or the other will be aA excuse anyway. His pet reporter will first hear of this and will say: “Oh, no; that can’t be!’’ The speaker will say: “Yes, it is so. He confidentially told me in the dressing room yesterday that this is his last year in the game.’’ “Has he told the president of the club?” the reporter will ask. “No; he hates to. He has been treated so nicely the present year.” Next morning, in large type, the newspaper will lead off. “Mr. So-and-So is to retire from baseball.” Holy Moses! The followers of this player are up in arms. One excitable fan will say: "I knew It! I knew it! I don’t blame him. He never could get along with that secretary and directors.” Another fan is on his feet: “I bet some of those other clubs are after him.” The first fan remarks: “Don’t you see he is to retire altogether? Going into business with his uncle in their mines.” A third fan speaks up: “Well, that will settle the club. I gave it my last half dollar.” The next day the president meets the player: “What, John? Is this true?" i The player says: “Yes, Mr. President; I am afraid It is. You see, I cannot play ball forever, and this chance may not come again. My uncle has been at me the past two years to quit the game. Then, you see, I bought some property lately on which $5,000 has to be paid, and uncle will do it if J quit” Here the president speaks up: “Why, pshaw! Stay with me the coming year and I will advance that amount and increase your salary to SB,OOO for a year. You know, John, I cannot replace you this year at least and you know I have always treated you well.” The player looks at the president in a sympathetic and innocent way: “Why, Mr. President, for that reason it breaks my heart to leave you, and I hate to have you believe I want any increase in salary; but I will write to uncle to allow me to stay in the business one more year at least just to please you.” Well, reader, this player remains in the game that year, and many other years afterward, and the only time he will leave the ball field is when the field is tired of him, says Scout Sullivan. The only ballplayer in the history of the game who retired when he said he would was Jim McCormick, the famous. National league pitcher who played with Cleveland and Chicago. This may be a little satire on the retiring ballplayer—but who can blame him? Don’t all trades and arts have their tricks? Indeed they do—from the minister of the gospel down. A minister out west was to retire and go into business. The congregation raised his salary, he reconsidered, and, he remained with his beloved parishioners simply because he loved them and his salary.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The Romans are afraid base ■ ball is brutal. Some of them ; must have heard Heinie Zim talk- ! ing to an umpire.—New York I American. The action of the rules com- ; mittee in emphasizing that all ! home runs must be run out isn’t > much consolation to Manhattan, ; for Frank Baker always did it ; anyway.—Cleveland Leader. ; If by hook or crook, organized ; baseball knew how to get ! Charley Weeghman in pos- ; sess of Charles Webb Murphy’s ; Cub franchise, maybe it ! wouldn’t break all Stockholm > records doing it. —Philadelphia ; North American. The tango and hesitation : dances have figured mote or less ■ prominently in the base ball slt- : nation. —New York Journal. Manager “Robbie” will teach his men how to slide, but will not try to do so himself.—Brooklyn Eagle.

Another Star From Brainerd.

The little town of Brainerd, Minn., will be more interested than ever In the success of the Athletics next season, provided young Joe Graves, an eighteen-year-old native, makes good as a member of Connie Mack’s pitching staff. Chief Bender was bom in Brainerd and Leslie Bush makes his home there in the off season. If Graves is half as good as these other Bralnerdites he is sure to win added distinction for the little town.

HOFMAN RESPONSIBLE FOR MERKLE PLAY

Artie Hofman, Now With the Brooklyn Federals.

Art Hofman, and not Johnny Evers,' was responsible for the famous play in the final New York-Chicago game in 1908 which robbed John J. McGraw’s Giants of a National league pennant and possible world’s championship, to say nothing of depriving each and every member of the New York team of at least $2,500. For years, or ever since 1908, Evers has been famous for “Touching Second.” It is true that Evers touched second and completed the play, but Evers should get the least credit for it, as two men thought of the play before he did. These two were Hofman and Stelnfeldt. Hofman it was engineered it. He first realized the opportunity ahead, and Evers came in away at the finish, behind Hofman and Stelnfeldt

After more than five years Hofman comes in for a share of credit, but it is doubtful if he will ever get the full amount due him. Mordecai Brown, the former great curve pitcher of the Chicago Nationals, and now manager

Johnny Evers, Boston’s Second Baseman.

of the St. Louis Federals, tells the inside story of the play, which for year after year has been kept secret. This is Brown’s version: “Evers knows as much baseball as any man in the game,” stated Brown. “He’s a quick thinker, always thinking of some play to stop the opposition, but he won credit where it wasn't deserved on that Merkle stuff. “It wasn’t Evers who saw it, but Artie Hos man, and as long as I live I’ll never forget the scramble on the Polo ground field. Evers made the putout; and he got it because he was the only one neap second. Still, Hofman was the one who started it. “With McCormick on thircj and Merkle on first, Al Bridwell shot a single to center. McCormick raced home with the run in the ninth inning that would have beaten us and won the pennant for the Giants. But Merkle, getting near second, didn’t touch the bag, and raced for the clubhouse.”

Criticize McGraw.

Muggsy McGraw was the target for criticism by an English newspaper before he ventured forth with the statement that he likes baseball better than cricket The article said McGraw should have waited until he got to America for such a declaration.

Attell Seeks Return Match.

Able Attell is confident that if Johnny Kilbane gives him one more fight he’ll regain the featherweight title. But Johnny Isn’t in any too big a hurry to dispose of his title. -

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Outfielder Coyle of Omaha has been' released to Memphis. • • • Why do the Browns and Cardinals go south to do their spring training 1 J-_ • • • “I’ll be boss of my team and run things as I see fit," says Charlie Her zog. *' • • • The Jersey City club will give Outfielder Fisher, formerly of Louisville! a trial. - - -» • • Fred Snodgrass won’t join the “flycatching’’ contest. He has signed with the Giants. • • • “Money is not the only thing which attracts players to baseball,” says Larry Lajoie. • • • The Topeka club has passed into the hands of Dan Breese, who will retain Dale Gear as manager. - - * —_—. Nick Maddox, former Pirate heaver, will manage the Wichita club of the Western league this season. Hughey Jennings says that speed is all his Detroit team needs. And he doesn’t say a word about the pennant * * * Three of Detroit’s left-handed hurlers come from the Southern league. They are Cavet, Cqvaleski and Williams. * • • “Mathewson has a life job with the Giants,” reads an exchanjge. But how much is his life worth when his arm fails? 3 Pitcher Palmero, the Giants’ new Cuban southpaw, has been pitching two and Aree-hlt games all winter in Havana. ♦ • • President Hedges of the Browns, declares baseball would be better off if it had several Rickeys to help “reorganize it.” • * • Walter Lonegran has signed a contract to play with Hugh Duffy’s Portland club in the New England league next season. • • • Pitcher Ralph Glaze, who used to burn ’em over for the Red Sox, has signed up with the Topeka club of the Western league. • « • Josephus Daniels, son of Secretary of the Navy Daniels, is a candidate for catcher on the Tome Institute baseball team at Port Deposit, MO. « * « Tom Daly, who was on the receiving end of the Tenor-Daly battery many years ago, has been given a position as about for the New York Yankees. • • • In Walter Johnson the Nationale have without a doubt, the best hurlei in Ban Johnson’s circuit. He exceede all slab artists in striking out the op position. Wally Schang of the Athletics is quite uome bowler. He is captain of the Wales Center (N. J.) team, which made a strong bid in a recent Buffalo tourney. • * • There will be two sets of brothaw in the Southern league this year. The Coyle boys will play with Chattanooga and Memphis, and the Reynolds brothers with Memphis and Atlanta. • • • St. Louis Browns have something else- to worry about besides the seven other American league dubs. Manager Rickey has prohibited his players from smoking cigarettes and playing poker.

PIANO REQUIRES CARE.

instrument exceedingly] QUICK TO RESENT NEGLECT. Subject In a Degree to the Extremes of Atmosphere—Lime In the Inter- » lor Will Prevent Rusting of the Wires. The piano is often neglected by the otherwise careful housewife, for the simple reason that her attention is ■eldom, if ever, called to its care. It seems to some if the tuner arrives periodically and the' instrument is carefully dusted that is all there is to the care of the piano. However, the piano is a very delicate Instrument, asall musicians know, and requires very watchful care. The first consideration is the position of the piano. Often the only object in placing a piano is to have the best light fall on the music rack. But the piano should not be placed too near the outer wall, the fireplace or radiator, as it is subject to the Influences of the atmosphere. Extreme heat and extreme cold are very harmful to the piano. If one wishes to have a musical instrument in the best of condition and to keep it so, an even temperature should be maintained in the room where it stands. If there is too much moisture in the atmosphere the wires become rusty, if there is too much heat the musical adjustment will be injured as " well as the wood in the case. The rusting of the wires can be prevented by sprinkling them with lime or by placing a bag of unslacked lime Ln the interior to absorb the moisture. When the atmosphere becomes too dry it is well to have a plant in the room that requires plenty pf water. A jar of water kept in the room helps by evaporation. Heavy articles should never be placed on the top of the piano nor should music or books be piled there, either. The keys should be wiped daily, when the piano is dusted, with a cloth dampened with alcohol. If this plan is followed there is less likelihood of their turning yellow. If the keys are soiled a cloth dipped in whiting and rubbed with alcohol will be found excellent for cleaning them. When the keys have become very yellow and need to be bleached try the following: Make a paste of unslacked lime and bran water. It should be applied and allowed to dry slightly. It should then be rubbed off with a cloth, and magnesia powder applied to the keys until dry. In a few minutes the keys can be polished to a high luster. Then care should be taken to prevent moths getting into the piano. Prevention is always worth while. In this case the carpet tinder- the piano should be sprinkled with camphor and ground moth balls placed on the floor underneath. A bag of camphor balls should be suspended from a nail driven in the outside of the piano. If moths do get into the piano make a mixture of benzoline and turpentine, using seven parts of benzoline to one of turpentlnd and add a drop or two of lavender water. Use a small scent spray or an old syringe to squirt this into the piano. Dealers in pianos say that, the best way, as well as the most satisfactory way to clean a piano is to simply wash it in hike warm water, drying each part briskly and rubbing it thoroughly just after it is washed. A chamois skin can be used to advantage here. This method leaves the polish absolutely Uninjured - .' ”

Coquilles of Fish.

Free a pint of cold boiled fish from skin And bones and break into small pieces with a silver fork. Put the shredded fish into a saucepan with half a cup of boiling a tablespoonful of thick cream, a teaspoonful of thick cream, a teaspoonful of butter rolled in flour, and salt and pepper to .taste. Stir over the Are until the mixture is thoroughly heated, then fill shells or ramekins, cover with crumbs and bits of butter and set In the Oven until nicely browned.

Creole Fish.

Into a saucepan put a heaping tablespoon of butter; melt, but do not let it brown. Add half an onion cut fine. Let simmer a minute, then add one cup of tomatoes (canned), three sprigs of parsley chopped fine, and one tablespoon of flour; let cook 15 minutes. Take a small bass or other small fish. • cut It Into two-inch pieces; see that all the bones are out and add the fish to the soup. Let all simmer for about 20 minutes. Serve. Prepare at breakfast time and reheat.

Chicken a la McDonald.

One cup of cold cooked chicken cut In strips, three cold boiled potatoes cut In one-third inch slices, one truffle cut In strips, three tablespoonfuls of butter, three tablespoonfuls of flour, one and one-half cupfuls of scalded milk, salt, pepper. Make a sauce of butter, flour and milk. Add the chicken, potatoes and truffle and as soon as heated add seasoning.

Over-Balted Food.

If too much salt has been added to the food in cooking* a little sugar will neutralize It, or, if the dish has been made too sweet, a little salt will counteract that. This applies to meats, vegetables, soups, and practically all dishes. - ~

Ham Balls for Tea.

Mix half a cupful of bread crumbi with two well-beaten eggs. Chop fine some bits of cold boiled ham. Mly. all tegether, make into balls or cakes and fry. ,